Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Steady Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
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In June of 1776, Richard Henry Lee, rising before the Continental Congress to move his resolution for American independence, declared: 'The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us; she demands of us a living example of freedom.'
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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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War settles nothing.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
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It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
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You just can't have this kind of war. There aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.